Long Time No See

The next couple of days are particularly packed with visits from presidential hopefuls, including Bayh, Vilsack, Edwards, and Warner.  Kerry is also dropping by at the end of the month.  Now for a mere $50,000 (a discount) the candidates can purchase access to the VAN, the Iowa Democratic Party’s voter database.  Though the Register points out that this fee comes with the added bonus of endearing oneself to the party, for $45,000 I bet I could find a password lying around somewhere.

Grinnell isn’t getting the rainforest museum.  Poweshiek Iowa Development executive director Bill Menner said “We did not think we could reach the ($25 million) threshold in a timely manner, We just decided that rather than belabor things, we’d allow them to make a quick decision.”  I was so looking forward to having the world’s largest indoor rainforest down the block (courtesy of Ted Townsend and a cool 50 million federal tax dollas- see Citizens Against Government Waste), but now I guess we’ll have to drive to Pella, Tiffen, or Riverside to see some monkeys.  There will be monkeys, right?   

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